(1) This is the description of Domestic Equanimity in MN 137: “When seeing a sight with the eye, equanimity arises for the unlearned ordinary person…” What kind of sight could this be? A calming scenery of nature? Won’t it be Domestic Happiness though?
(2) The Buddha taught Rahula to get in tune with earth, water, fire and wind, which do not get upset even when people throw garbage onto them. Is this domestic equanimity?
(3) Does the Renunciate Equanimity refer only to formless jhanas? Or the level of jhana does not matter as long as you see anicca and dukha in things?
(4) Are Brahmaviharas Renunciate Equanimity?
Thank you always.
Heesoo 
I think the words gehasita (domestic) and nekkhamma (renunciation) are referring to the quality of the mind (or person), as opposed to any particular ‘type’ of something, e.g. sight. practice etc.
So for example if an unenlightened person sees something pleasant, then they will perceive that thing (whatever it might be) with delight, lust etc., because they fail to see the impermanent nature of it.
But if an enlightened person sees the same thing, they will perceive it as impermanent and as a cause for suffering.
And whenever you see something like the following in the suttas:
This is a subtle way of implying that the person is at least a stream enterer. There are lots of such subtleties sprinkled in the suttas.
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SN 45.24
Bhikkhus, whether for a layperson or one gone forth, I do not praise the wrong way. Whether it is a layperson or one gone forth who is practising wrongly, because of undertaking the wrong way of practice he does not attain the method, the Dhamma that is wholesome. And what, bhikkhus, is the wrong way? It is: wrong view, wrong intention, …
MN 117
And what, bhikkhus, is wrong intention? The intention of sensual desire, the intention of ill will, and the intention of cruelty: this is wrong intention.
MN 22
Bhikkhus, that one can engage in sensual pleasures without sensual desires, without perceptions of sensual desire, without thoughts of sensual desire—that is impossible.
KN Snp 2.14 (to layman Dhammika)
Let the intelligent person live a celibate life,
as one would avoid a pit of glowing coals;
but being unable to live the celibate life,
go not beyond the bounds with others’ partners.
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